FIRST READ:
When lies lead to more lies and more lies: Great Lakes countries call for end to fighting in DR Congo: ‘agree’ on neutral force for Congo
http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.com/2012/08/when-lies-lead-to-more-lies-and-more.html
Congo Genocide: Will Obama's America collaborate or refuse?
The Untold Stories: Kagame Meets Kabila in Kampala in Search of Peace for DRC; Will the Glass Hold Water This Time?
http://www.inyenyerinews.org/afrika/the-untold-stories-kagame-meets-kabila-in-kampala-in-search-of-peace-for-drc-will-the-glass-hold-water-this-time/
August
11, 2012
After President Kagame met his DRC Counterpart
(KABILA) in the Ethiopian Capital Addis Ababa, the two leaders agreed to allow
in a joint, neutral international force to monitor the porous borders of the two
countries. There is a saying in Kinyarwanda that when two thieves who have been
working together for a long time, if one of them pays a visits to his/her
colleague, neither of them will go to sleep. This is exactly the
scenario between these two leaders, they don’t trust each other and they know
for sure all their old games in the CONGO conflict.
In fact, both leaders did not allow the ink to
dry on the papers signed in Addis, because as soon as they returned to their
respective countries, they instructed their mouth piece Ministers to tell their
people what their true colors are. In Kigali as usual the Minister of Foreign
Affairs madam Mushikiwabo was ringing her bells aloud that Kinshasa
is coughing flue again, pointing out that DRC plays right into the double
standards of the international community.
“The same officials we hold talks and sign pacts
with, are the same, who after a few hours of our meetings and agreements, will
go back home and start screaming on TVs and radios that Rwanda is fomenting the
crisis in DRC. It puzzles me,” Minister Mushikiwabo said.
Who is fooling who?
The Congo
government knows very well that Kigali is
already a wounded buffalo; the whole international community has overwhelming
evidence that Kigali is behind the conflict in Congo,
what should then Kabila discuss with Kagame? Therefore Kigali regime is on
defensive while Kinshasa is on offensive, that’s why even after
seemingly agreeing on issues, once they are back in the comfort of their abodes
in Kinshasa, Congolese officials, right from President Kabila to foreign
affairs Minister Raymond Tshimbanda and government spokesperson Lambert Mende,
maintain the accusations on Kigali.
It is reported that after the meeting between
President Kabila and Kagame in the Ethiopian capital, on the side lines of the
African Union (AU), President Kabila penned a ‘strong-worded’ letter to the
international community asking it to take stern action against Rwanda.
Indeed that’s why Kinshasa has ‘reneged’ on
every effort made between the two countries seeking to find a lasting solution
to the conflict in Eastern DRC, and instead
Kabila chooses to be ‘bed fellows’ with the international community.
The Kinshasa regime knows very well the history
of our region , the war that ousted the former President of Rwanda Juvenal
Habyarimana started in Uganda, interestingly the regime in Kampala at the time
denied any involvement in the Rwandan conflict instead with the
conspiracy of some members of the international community , Uganda and
Rwanda at that time created a force which according to Museveni and
Habyarimana would oversee the border and prevent RPF from advancing to
the Rwandan territory.
However, the RPF was a movement supported by the Kampala regime and
determined to overthrow the government of Juvénal Habyarimana.. During the initial stages
of the invasion, Museveni and Habyarimana were both attending a UN
summit in the United States.
It is believed that the date for the RPF mobilization was set to allow Museveni
to distance himself from their actions until it was too late to stop them.
As I have mentioned above Museveni was blamed for complicity in the
September 1990 invasion and/or not having control of his army. The RPF like M23
melted away into the Virunga
Mountains straddling the Rwanda-Uganda border. Despite the negotiation
of a security pact, in which both countries agreed to cooperate in maintaining
security along their common border, a resurgent RPF had occupied much of the
northern territory of Rwanda by 1992 until the final assault on the Kigali
after murdering the former President and his Burundian Counterpart in 1994
which proceeded the genocide which still haunts the Rwandan people today.
Therefore all the above history is still fresh in
the mind of President Kabila; after all he lost his father in almost the same
circumstances. Kagame is a man you cannot trust, he has managed to
exterminate almost all his colleagues, and here I mean the founders of the RPF,
either by killing them or politically rendering them impotent. He has
managed to control the whole country by intimidation and harassment and just
recently he has introduced a law that will allow his notorious security
officers to police all the information on phones and internet. Although they
have been under the watch, the new law is to scare even those who still were in
doubt that they are under the binoculars of the DMI and other killing squads.
Kigali regime has a tradition of denying of
whatever evil they do, when the Kagame spies were involved in acts
of espionage in UK and other parts of Europe , Kagame and his government
denied the accusations despite different pieces of evidence attained by British
secret services implicating Rwandan Government in dubious action against its
critics in UK ,president Kagame in his arrogant style of spiting
fire denied the Espionage allegations and instead irrespectively accused
respected British security services of not being professional . Indeed, this is
the same style that he applied on the both UN reports, namely the UN Mapping
report on the Massacres in Congo
and the recent one of the support of M23.
It is not clear therefore whether the Kampala
meeting will yield any meaningful results pertaining the Congo conflict given
the background of the above conflict and how Kagame has managed to stage all
these conflicts never the less manages to confuse the international community
and all the donor countries where they keep funding his projects of killing his
own people and giving his neighbors sleepless nights. There is little
hope that the Kampala
meeting will hold the water in the glass.
Jacquleine Umurungi
